Uganda, March 31 -- Efforts by the National Unity Platform (NUP) party to force its deputy vice president in charge of Buganda region to resign from his position as parliamentary commissioner have led to questions about constitutionalism within the party.

Mr Mathias Mpuuga is accused by the party leadership of irregularly receiving Shs500 million as a "service award" for his two-and-half-year term as Leader of the Opposition in Parliament (LoP).

Eyebrows were first raised when NUP's president, Mr Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, popularly known as Bobi Wine, issued dossiers, concluding that Mpuuga should resign on the account of corruption, only later to refer the matter to his party's national executive committee (NEC).

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